According to our information, it was Emmanuel Pellerin, a lawyer, who came to the prefecture on Thursday to submit his candidacy as a substitute, on behalf of the presidential majority.
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Deputy Thierry Solère, ex-Les Républicains and now a close adviser to Emmanuel Macron, did not submit his candidacy for the legislative elections in the 9th district of Hauts-de-Seine as planned, learned the political service of France televisions with the majority.
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According to our information, it was Emmanuel Pellerin, a lawyer, who came to the prefecture on Thursday, May 19 in the morning to submit his candidacy as a substitute, on behalf of the presidential majority.
The candidacy of the one who is also a regional councilor for Ile-de-France was criticized because of the existence of a judicial investigation opened since 2019 against him, and in which the elected official, aged 50, is put in examination on thirteen counts, including “tax evasion”, “fictitious employment” and “illicit financing of election expenses”.
He is suspected of having “used his influence in order to obtain markets” to real estate companies between 2007 and 2017, and to a consulting company between 2011 and 2012, according to the parquet floor of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), questioned in January. He was also indicted for breaches of reporting obligations to the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP).